That's a good question.
I suppose there are a couple of ways to answer that. It's quite clear that enforcement across the country is wildly uneven. We see some jurisdictions—and I see real momentum, particularly in Manitoba—where the law is being enforced. In other jurisdictions, like my own city of Vancouver, there has been a deliberate refusal to enforce the law. In terms of whether the law is actually being enforced, and enforced consistently across the country, the answer to that question is no.
Now, in terms of where the law is being enforced, and what effects it's having, there are two effects. The first is that it is working hand in hand with the trafficking provisions to provide another tool for police and prosecutors in situations of exploitation.
The other thing it's doing is actually starting to shift attitudes. You see the Manitoba Court of Appeal recently sentencing a man to five years imprisonment for buying a 16-year-old girl for prostitution. That's grounded in the idea that purchasing another human being for sex is itself an offence against the person. You see Winnipeg moving to ban massage parlours, because of their links to trafficking. Again, it's grounded in this recognition that it's not legal to buy another human being for sex.
Those are my observations, but I'd like to see much more consistent enforcement of that provision across the country, and not this kind of artificial distinction that if that 16-year-old girl makes it to the age of 18, enforcement somehow falls away.